1. Grace Bible Church Glorifying God by Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

2. Our Reformation Heritage Selected Scriptures
The 95 Theses - Disputation Of Dr. Martin Luther Concerning Penitence And Indulgences
Opposing were the church hierarchy, the monastic orders, scholastic theologians and traditionalists

3. Our Reformation Heritage Selected Scriptures
In favor were liberal scholars, German patriots and all the ordinary Christians waiting a pure religion
Our theological heritage is solidly founded in the Reformation

4. Preservation of a Remnant
The Early Church had the greatest purity, and even it had severe problems.
1 Corinthians 3:1,
Galatians 1:6-9,
2 Peter 2,
James 2:14-26,
1 John
Matthew 13

5. Preservation of a Remnant
The edicts of Toleration in A.D. 311 & 313 stopped the official persecution

6. Constantine The Great
Constantine the Great ( ) favored Christianity –
resulting in some joining for political reasons
Theodosius (383–395), made Christianity the official religion –
and the church filled with false believers

7. Constantine The Great
The church does not do well when the state controls it, or it controls the state

8. The Rise of Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholicism developed due to power struggles between “Bishops”
By the 5th century, Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, & Jerusalem were the powerful bishops
The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches separated from each other in the 9th Century

9. R.C.C. Non-Biblical Doctrines
The Mass - celebrated daily by 394.
A sacrifice by 11th Century.
Transubstantiation a dogma in 1215
Mary, “Mother of God” in 431.
Payers to her by 600.
Immaculate Conception
Ascension

10. R.C.C. Non-Biblical Doctrines
The Pope
Kissing pope’s foot
Confess sins to priest, not God
Infallibility
In 1229, the Council of Valencia placed the Bible itself on the list of books forbidden to laymen

11. R.C.C. Non-Biblical Doctrines
Indulgences - idea in middle ages.
Selling them
Applied to the dead - 15th Cent.
Affirmed
Council of Trent pronounced 100 anathemas against those who disagreed with official church dogma

12. Preservation of a Remnant
God has always had a remnant even in the Roman Catholic Church
Bernard of Thiron, Robert of Abrissel & Vitalis of Savigny,
Waldensians,
Humiliati & Arnoldists, etc.

13. Significant Reformers
John Wyclif ( )
Jon Hus (

14. Other 16th Century Reformers
Those with Luther:
Bodenstein, von Amsdorf, Butzer, Melanchthon, Bugenhagen, Jonas
Elector Frederick the Wise & the Reichstag
Huldreich Zwingli - Swiss Reformation

15. Other 16th Century Reformers
Guillaume Farel - border areas of France and Geneva.
John Calvin
The Anabaptists –
Mennonites and Moravians
Denmark / Iceland, Norway

16. Other 16th Century Reformers
King Gustaf Vasa of Sweden / Finland
England - King Henry VIII opened the door, it could not be closed again
God even used civil leaders with wrong or mixed motives to bring about needed changes

17. The Great Theological Divide 2 Corinthians 6:14-16
Sola scriptura - by Scripture alone.
The Bible, not man, is the final authority
2 Timothy 3:16-17
2 Peter 1:19-21

18. Sola fide – By Faith Alone
Faith yields justification and good works, not Faith and good works yield justification
Romans 4:5
Galatians 3:11
Ephesians 2:8-9

19. Sola gratia - by Grace Alone
God as the sole source of grace - unmerited favor of salvation
Romans 4:4, 11:6
Ephesians 2:8-9
Romans 3:24
2 Timothy 1:9

20. Solus Christus - through Christ Alone
Forgiveness of sins is only through Jesus Christ
Acts 4:12
1 Timothy 2:5-6
Colossians 1:14
Hebrews 4, 8, 9 and 12

21. Soli Deo gloria – for the Glory of God Alone
The ultimate purpose of the Reformation – restore the glory due God that had been taken by man
1 Corinthians 10:31
Colossians 3:17
Romans 11:36

22. The Continuing Reformation
The Reformers opened the door and laid the foundation upon which build
We walk in their footsteps standing boldly on the Scriptures and humbly changing to match them

23. Grace Bible Church Glorifying God by Making Disciples of Jesus Christ